Dog Training Brisbane

North Brisbane’s Trusted Dog & Puppy Trainer since 2017

Initial Consultation

Are you unsure what your dog actually needs?

Mary Puppins specialises in the issues owners face bringing home a new puppy and making sure that your puppy's critical period is spent desensitising him/her to all sorts of environmental and social settings. Plus building dogs obedience skills and relationship with their handler.

Initial Consults look at what you'd like to achieve with your dog based on becoming the family dog with lovely manners and the obedience you desire.

I suggest a 1.5hr Initial Consultation to discuss your obedience hopes and work out a program that best suits your needs.

An Initial consult is not required for the Puppy Confidence and Exposure Program or the Welcome Home Puppy Session.

Total investment: $190

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Private Puppy Confidence and Exposure Training

Looking for a real world puppy training school that teaches your puppy more than just “sit”?

Mary Puppins Brisbane delivers foundation puppy socialisation training courses, designed to give you the skills to successfully raise your puppy to be the reliable, well mannered and obedient adult dog you want.

From socialisation to strange sights, surfaces, people and animals, our North Brisbane based puppy socialisation courses will show you how to guide your puppy through the human world and become a confident, well balanced dog.

Did you know puppies have a critical period of development up to 16/17 weeks of age that all of this needs to happen in. Many people believe socialisation means exposing your puppy to lots of dogs and handing puppy around to lots of humans after their 3rd vaccination. This couldn't be further from the truth. Have you ever heard of a neutral dog? This is what we are aiming for. To create a calm, confident puppy who believes in their abilities in whatever environment we expose them to in life.

The Puppy Confidence and Exposure Training course sets your pup up for the very best start in life and is a great foundation for further obedience training.

Our Private Puppy Confidence and Exposure Training Course Will Teach:

  • Our proven communication system so that your puppy knows exactly when its on the right track and what you are expecting from him/her
  • How to use what motivates your puppy to do what you want (food / toys / affection)
  • How to manage your puppy at home-sleeping arrangements, managing their space in the house, teaching independence, nutrition for optimal health and longevity
  • How to address common puppy behaviour problems: puppy biting / destructive behaviours / puppy toilet training
  • How to teach the foundations of basic obedience training skills such as: drop, come, sit, name recognition, beginnings of loose leash walking so that puppy can move on to obedience courses afterwards.
  • Exposure training to different environments, people, surfaces, wheels, noises, vaccinated dogs etc
  • Confidence games to produce engagement with owner and confidence in puppy

Private Puppy Confidence and Exposure Training Course Inclusions:

Puppy Confidence & Exposure Training Package (8-20wks old)

To maximise yours and your dog's progress together, you will gain 6 months access to your own private support group, where you will receive support and guidance in between lessons.

  • 1x1hr Private In-home puppy training lessons with owner
  • 3x45mins Walk & Train lessons.  I will take your dog out in public to expose to various environments in an appropriate manner. . 
  •  Tug toy
  • 1x Treat bag
  • 1x 454g bag of Ziwipeak
  • 1x5m rope lead
  • 6 months access to your private support group

Total investment: $521

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Welcome Home Puppy Session

  • Feeling a bit overwhelmed with a new puppy coming home?
  • Worried about how your older dog will cope?
  • Not sure what to expect or what you need to be doing?
Book a 2hr private session to go over what to expect from a newborn pup and what you need to do in the first 16 weeks of your dogs life during its critical period.

What we go over:

  • toilet training
  • crate training
  • creating a confident puppy
  • nutrition for health and longevity
  • sleeping arrangements
  • giving older animals their own space
  • great games to play with the puppy
  • sleeping needs
  • mental and physical stimulation
  • leaving your puppy to go to work and environmental exposure.

Total investment: $299

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Private Dog Obedience Training Brisbane

Mary Puppins private dog obedience training lessons help you achieve your dog training goals quickly and effectively.

With Mary Puppins Brisbane, you’ll have peace of mind that your dog is under effective control, obedient, well mannered and able to go anywhere with you, without causing a scene.

We use balanced and gentle methods, based on play and reward tailored to yours and your dog's obedience needs, to ensure your dog receives the best private in-home dog obedience training available.

Private Dog Obedience Training Courses Will Teach You:

  • Our proven communication system so your dog understands exactly what you are asking from him/her
  • How to use what motivates your dog in training (food / toys / affection)
  • How to establish appropriate boundaries and manners with your dog in and out of your home
  • How to achieve a loose leash walk (and stop pulling) so walking is enjoyable for both of you
  • Basic dog obedience commands ( Come / Place / Sit / Down)
  • OR address specific obedience issues you are having

Foundation Package

For those puppies or dogs who have been through their critical period (up to 16 weeks of age) and now need to learn how to be a well mannered doggo out in society.

This program will teach all the basics and set you up to continue your journey out in public.

In this program, puppy works with me to speed up the learning process, as well as lessons with the owner so you become an expert handler as well. This program is very hands on and requires you to spend minimum 10mins a day practicing what we are working on. You will then upload video homework, multiple times a week on to your own training page that I will review and give feedback so you can progress In between lessons.

Things we are likely to cover are:

  • Door manners at home & incl car exits
  • Crate training
  • Visitor manners-not jumping up
  • The importance of play (engagement)
  • Sit hold
  • Drop hold
  • Recall
  • Loose leash walking
  • Place training

This course is to give you a good foundation to continue with your training throughout your dogs first 2 years. Many clients often continue with WALK & TRAIN packages to keep progressing their dog’s training once this package ends to teach proficiency in lots of environments.

There are just so many benefits to having a dog who can do as asked in a public setting. More freedom being the ultimate reward to training.

Inclusions:

  • 5x45mins  PRIVATE SESSIONS with owner (VALUE - $750)
  • 10x30mins WALK & TRAINS - trainer works with dog only (VALUE - $700)
  • Training pouch
  • Ziwipeak 456g
  • 5m long line
  • High Quality Training Leash
  • Tug toy

Total Investment:

$1541 or  $1450  if moving straight from Puppy Confidence and Exposure Program

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Loose-Leash Walking Training Package

How amazing would it be to go for a leisurely walk with your dog without being dragged down the street? Its not pleasant at all!

Some dogs are fully driven by their noses and just drag you from one smell to the next. While sniffing is a very important part of walks, wouldn't it be great to have sniffing as the reward for beautiful loose leash walking in between?

To maximise yours and your dog's progress together, you will gain 6 months access to your own private support group, where you will receive support and guidance in between lessons.

Inclusions:

  • 1x 1hr Private In-home dog behaviour training lesson
  • 3x 30min Private sessions in the environment 
  • 1x 1.5m Every-Day Quality training lead
  • 1x Treat bag
  • 1x 454g bag of Ziwi Peak
  • 6 months access to your private support group

Total investment: $480

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Private Lesson Bundle x3, x5

This option will be available for behaviour modification.

To maximise yours and your dog's progress together, you will gain unlimited access to our clients only group, as well as phone, and email support.


3x45min Private In-home dog behaviour training lessons

6 months access to our client only private group plus ph and email support.

TOTAL INVESTMENT: $420


5x 45mins Private In-home dog behaviour training lessons

6 months access to our Clients Only private group plus phone and email support.

Total investment: $699

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Walk & Train Booster Package-can be added to packages where I train your dog to speed up the learning process


  • 5x30 minute Private Walk and Train lessons 
Total Investment: $350 ($70each)


  • 10x30 minute Private Walk & Train lessons

Total investment: $680 ($68each)

  • 20x30 minute Walk and Train lessons
Total Investment: $1300 ($65 each)


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Want to learn more about how Mary Puppins Brisbane can help you to achieve your dog training and dog obedience goals? Get in touch via the contact form below to learn more about our professional, Brisbane based, dog training services.